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Client

web-appsbeginner

In the context of software, client refers to the person or computer that's accessing an application. This could be your phone, laptop, tablet, whatever you're using to load a site in your browser or play a game on iOS.

You'll often hear "client" together with "server" – the client is you using the app, the server is the application backend.

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